THE JOYCE OF IMPOSSIBILITIES

The following sketch tries to outline a dilemma we have with Joyce's works, perhaps without always being aware of it. It focuses on our interactions with Joyce and how essentially necessary and at the same time impossible they are. As always, this holds true of every writer, but much more poignantly in Joyce who incites so much enthralling endeavour and ultimately frustrates it. Some of those futile and all too obvious endeavours will be listed below. To put it all more positively, they testify to the indomitable vitality of Joyce's works in progress.